GAINS: 6 MONTHS, JANUARY TO JULY, 1899. Please mention THE CONNECTICUT MAGAZINE when you write to advertisers. 'HE necticut have been called the three peace when his enthusiastic praise gains most beautiful rivers in the world. No the careless greeting, “The Connecticut? one disputes the fascinations of the Rhine, Oh yes, a pretty little stream ;" or, as teeming with legend and history, lined by once met the writer's amazed ears, “ But vineyards, guarded by castles. None you know, the water is so muddy." It is forget the frowning hill-tops that hem in idle to combat the opinions of the conthe Hudson's majesty. But even the tentedly nearsighted and ignorant. He traveled may not, for lack of knowledge, who knows his river-love at its gay beginadd the third name of the list, and the ning in the mountains; its soberer path lover of the gentle, the varied, the ever- among the fair lands of Massachusetts ; exquisite Connecticut must sometimes its varied and nobler valley in its own 543 |